Stephen K. Jones, F.A.C.H.E., has been selected as President and Chief Executive Officer of Robert Wood Johnson University (RWJU) Hospital and Robert Wood Johnson Health System. He has served as Interim President and Chief Executive Officer of the hospital since December 2006. From 1983 until his December 2006 appointment, Mr. Jones was Senior Vice President, Operations at RWJU Hospital. Before joining RWJU, he worked in management at other New Jersey facilities, including Somerset Medical Center and Barnert Memorial Hospital Center. Mr. Jones is past president of the Senior Healthcare Executives Society of New Jersey and of the Assistant Hospital Directors Association of New Jersey, and a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. 

Steven K. Galson, M.D., M.P.H., has been named Acting Surgeon General of the United States, replacing Acting Surgeon General Kenneth Moritsugu, M.D., M.P.H., who had succeeded Richard Carmona.